#Beer Hall Putsch

[tojis-roommate]

CAN I JUST SAY HE DID THE EXACT SAME THING HITLER DID? He STAGES a coup d'etat then PARDONS everyone the second he gets government power. He's following the exact same steps because the Nazi party was successful in mass genocide and government takeover. I hope it's just fear, but history could very well repeat itself this term. If it even lasts just a four year term and not more.

It’s uncanny how similar Trump is acting like Hitler. People are now doing the Nazi salute. They’re drawing the symbol. The KKK was seen in Kentucky asking people to join them. ICE has been ripping families apart. Companies have pulled back Diversity Initiatives. We’re no longer part of WHO and there won’t be any communication from the CDC at least until February 1st. We’re being censored and the news can’t be trusted. Thousands of Americans didn’t know there were protests against Trump yesterday outside the U.S. Quotes from The Handmaid’s Tale and Anne Frank have been compared to what’s going on right now.

According to The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Studies and Prevention the U.S. has officially been given a red flag alert for Genocide.

I’m exhausted but I will never stop being angry.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report:

This past Saturday night—just days before the 4th anniversary of the Jan. 6 terrorist attack-- Donald Trump held an event at his exclusive county club to honor one of the lawyers whose election fraud lies helped fuel the insurrection. That was a despicable event—but not expected. After all Trump has followed Adolph Hitler’s playbook after his own failed coup to honor and celebrate those who helped him with his treasonous plot. And if history is a guide, by the 5th anniversary of Trump’s Jan 6 terrorist attack, we can expect Trump to have created a national day of remembrance to honor the sacrifice of the MAGA “patriots” who waged that deadly attack on our Capitol. There is little originality when it comes to fascist tactics and propaganda. That is why what Trump has been doing to rewrite the Jan 6 attack as an “act of patriotism” was foretold to us by history—and Nazi history at that. In 1923, Hitler waged a coup known as the “Beer Hall Putsch” where he led several thousand of his supporters in an effort to violently overthrow Germany’s Weimar Republic. Among those who marched with Hitler included Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess and others who would later serve in very visible positions in the Nazi regime.

Hitler’s plot led to a clash with the Munich police that left 14 Nazis and four police officers dead—and scores of both injured. Hitler was arrested and served less than one year in prison where he wrote “Mein Kampf” and plotted his return to power. After Hitler’s release from jail, he saw the benefit of celebrating the so called “martyrs” of the coup as a way to rally supporters. Hitler even utilized a flag from the attack that had been stained with the blood of his supporters—known as the “Blood flag” --as a powerful piece of propaganda at Nazi events. Once Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he honored those killed by the police in his coup attempt with an annual event known as “Reich Day of Mourning.” And the city square where the Hitler’s loyalists had clashed with police became a key memorial for the Nazi Party. It was only after World War II did the German Federal Republic dedicate a plaque memorializing the four police officers killed in defense of the Weimar Republic.

In the case of Trump-- after first attempting to claim Jan. 6 was carried out by Antifa—he embraced Hitler’s playbook of celebrating the Jan. 6 attackers, sensing that this would help him excite the MAGA base. Less than a year after Jan 6, Trump began to make his supporter Ashli Babbitt--who was killed by a police officer when she jumped into a secured area against the officer’s command--into a martyr for the MAGA cause. Trump—just ten months after the Jan 6 attack--recorded a personal message for the Babbit family declaring, “There was no reason Ashli should've lost her life that day.” He added, “We must all demand justice for Ashli and her family, so on this solemn occasion as we celebrate her life.” Afterwards, Babbitt’s mother shared in an online video how Trump had personally caller her and that, “He said he talks about Ashli and he thinks about Ashli and that he has her on his heart.” That of course overjoyed MAGA core supporters who had already been celebrating Babbitt.

From there, Trump leaned into honoring the attackers who brutally beat up police officers—injuring more than 140--with four officers committing suicide in the months that followed. Trump hailed the MAGA terrorists at his rallies as being “great patriots” and “hostages.”

In 2023, Trump welcomed a fundraiser for the Jan. 6 attackers at his country club where he slammed the prosecution of the attackers. He told the audience, “You have firemen, you have teachers, you have electricians, you have great people, and they’ve been made to pay a price.” He even personally donated money to the cause. One of the most traitorous displays by Trump was his recording of a rendition of the national anthem with Jan 6 attackers who were in prison for savagely beating up police officers. This song titled, “Justice For All”—and produced by Trump’s pick to head the FBI, Kash Patel-- includes as singers, Ryan Nichols who pled guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers and was sentenced to more than five years in prison. Others singing include Shane Jenkins who was convicted of seven felonies, including assaulting law enforcement with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to seven years in prison. And it’s this song that Trump kicked off many campaign rallies with an announcer asking the crowd to “please rise for the horribly and unfairly treated January 6 hostages,” followed by the song being played. This is no different than Hitler’s use of the “Blood Flag”—but in this case Trump is celebrating MAGA terrorists he knows were the tip of the violent spear who attacked the police in his name.

Donald Trump’s honoring of the domestic terrorists who violently stormed the Capitol on January 6th has disturbing echoes of Führer Adolf Hitler celebrating the Beer Hall Putsch as the “Reich Day of Mourning” in Nazi Germany.

[thepopculturearchivist]

THE LIVING AGE, April 26, 1924

[batnomadblog]

Munich / München Day 1 part 2

Munich / München Day 1 part 2

Frauenkirche, Odeonplatz, Feldherrhalle and more form part of Day 1 part two in Munich/ München. Much like Munich Day 1 Part 1, it’s a bit of a jumble. With most sites in the city only a short walk from each other, many places were passed multiple times each day. Meaning some pictures taken on day three for part of day 1 etc. Both part 1 & part 2 can easily be done in one day (and more).…

[stable-confusion]

Young Hitler Saying "Hold my beer."

I wanted to make a joke about Hitler literally beginning his rise to power by saying "Hold my beer." at the Beer Hall Putsch, but it seems people calling eachother Hitler is so common that when I want a picture of Hitler I get random people.

[pitch-and-moan]

Abendessen für Schmucks

The true-ish story of the first time Hitler tried to convince members of the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei to make him the leader of of the Sturmabteilung over a dinner at a beer hall in Munich, despite being a vegetarian and teetotaler. The film is shot as a slapstick farce, other guests brought to the dinner include a black German war veteran, a crossdressing former circus performer, a failed inventor who was a protégé of Nikola Tesla who believes he can communicate telepathically, a furry, and Ahasver the Wandering Jew.

[aristoteliancomplacency]

‘As I have written, the roots of this odious and at times overt strain within the GOP date back to the late 1930s and the first iteration of the America First movement, led by that famed aviator and enduring cultural icon Charles Lindbergh.

Lindbergh had a large and enthusiastic following for his isolationist and pro-fascist rhetoric.

He wasn’t alone.

As writer and editor Jacob Heilbrunn has noted: “Politicians such as Herbert Hoover, who addressed the 1940 Republican convention, lauded Hitler as a force for stability in Central Europe. They claimed that Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, not the Third Reich, was the actual totalitarian threat to America.”

That distorted thinking has continued to infect the GOP in the many decades since and was given renewed life with the ascendancy of Trump who, according to his former chief of staff John Kelly, praised Hitler for having done “some good things” and, as commander-in-chief, pined for generals like the Nazis.’

We’ve heard the warnings that nazism didn’t start with the holocaust, and that the creeping extremist rhetoric that we’ve seen for the last however many years is series of increasingly large red flags. But people keep pointing it out because it’s true. We’ve been here before, with political leaders in the countries that eventually defeated the Nazis not only being reluctant to actually fight them, but openly praising them. This rhetoric is not harmless. It’s easy to become numb to hearing this stuff said time and time again but jfc we cannot let that happen.

[rabbuy6]

Rookie numbers.

[thesparkwhowalks]

There's this scene in A Mighty Wind, a great mockumentary about producing a folk reunion concert, wherein the concert's producer tells the director he thinks it would be great to open the broadcast with a crane shot swooping over the crowd... while they are going over the shots available based on the existing placement of cameras for the show going on in a couple hours.

The director points out they don't have a crane. The producer opines again about how great it would look. The director again says they don't have a crane. The producer acknowledges that, but continues talking about how cool it would look. The director agrees that it would look cool. They repeat that "I'm just saying" and "Yeah, that would look nice" loop a few times. The producer clearly expects that to mean something, but the unspoken fact remains that they just aren't able to achieve that shot and the producer doesn't actually have any feasible plans on how to change that.

That's what a lot of American left wing political discussions have felt like this year.

[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this image of Hitler at the Burgerbrau Keller, Munich.

[thatswhywelovegermany]

November 9, the fateful day of the Germans in history

Nov 9, 1313: Battle of Gammelsdorf - Louis IV defeats his cousin Frederick the Fair marking the beginning of a series of disputes over supremacy between the House of Wittelsbach and the House of Habsburg in the Holy Roman Empire

Nov 9, 1848: Execution of Robert Blum (a german politician) - this event is said to mark the beginning of the end of the March Revolution in 1848/49, the first attempt of establishing a democracy in Germany

Nov 9, 1914: Sinking of the SMS Emden, the most successful German ship in world war I in the indo-pacific, its name is still used as a word in Tamil and Sinhala for a cheeky troublemaker

Nov 9, 1918: German Revolution of 1918/19 in Berlin. Chancellor Max von Baden unilaterally announces the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II and entrusts Friedrich Ebert with the official duties. At around 2 p.m., the Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann proclaims the "German Republic" from the Reichstag building. Two hours later, the Spartacist Karl Liebknecht proclaims the "German Soviet Republic" from the Berlin City Palace.

Nov. 9, 1923: The Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch (Munich Beer Hall Putsch) is bloodily suppressed by the Bavarian State Police in front of the Feldherrnhalle in Munich after the Bavarian Prime Minister Gustav Ritter von Kahr announces on the radio that he has withdrawn his support for the putsch and that the NSDAP is being dissolved.

Nov 9, 1925: Hitler imposes the formation of the Schutzstaffel (SS).

Nov 9, 1936: National Socialists remove the memorial of composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in front of the Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig.

Nov 9, 1938: November Pogrom / Pogrom Night ("Night of Broken Glass") organized by the Nazi state against the Jewish population of Germany.

Nov 9, 1939: The abduction of two british officiers from the Secret Intelligence Service by the SS in Venlo, Netherlands, renders the British spy network in continental Europe useless and provides Hitler with the pretext to invade the Netherlands in 1940.

Nov 9, 1948: Berlin Blockade Speech - West Berlin mayor Ernst Reuter delivers a speech with the famous words "Peoples of the world, look at this city and recognize that you cannot, that you must not abandon this city".

Nov 9, 1955: Federal Constitutional Court decision: all Austrians who have acquired german citizenship through annexation in 1938, automatically lost it after Austria became sovereign again.

Nov 9, 1967: Students protest against former Nazi professors still teaching at German universities, showing the banner ”Unter den Talaren – Muff von 1000 Jahren” ("Under the gowns – mustiness of 1000 years", referring to the self-designation of Nazi Germany as the 'Empire of 1000 Years') and it becomes one of the main symbols of the Movement of 1968 (the German Student  Movement).

Nov 9, 1969: Anti-Semitic bomb attack - the radical left-winged pro-palestinian organization “Tupamaros West-Berlin” hides a bomb in the jewish community house in Berlin. It never exploded though.

Nov 9, 1974: death of Holger Meins - the member of the left-radical terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF) financed in part by the GDR that eventually killed 30 people, dies after 58 days of hunger strike, triggering a second wave of terrorism.

Nov 9, 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall - After months of unrest, demonstrations and tens of thousands escaping to West Germany, poorly briefed spokesman of the newly formed GDR government Günter Schabowski announces that private trips to non-socialist foreign countries are allowed from now on. Tens of thousands of East Berliners flock to the border crossings and overwhelm the border guards who had not received any instructions yet because the hastily implemented new travel regulations were supposed to be effective only the following day and involved the application for exit visas at a police office. Subsequently, crossing the border between both German states became possible vitrually everywhere.

[businesstiramisu]

hey @peripapaya guess what terrible anime movie I got to have a conversation about IRL this weekend >:D

Trying to prove a point that people DO actually like these "weird" fun campy stories.

And of course, reblogging helps the sample size blah blah blah. Reblog if you see your favorite movie and want it to win, I guess lol

[foone]

I want you to think about this as a writing exercise, not a poll about your personal morals/politics.

So imagine you find a crashed time travel attack drone. It's got enough fuel left for one last trip: you tell it when and where, it warps through time, and now it's got about the equivalent firepower of an helicopter gunship.

So you could shoot a person, a crowd, level a smallish building, take out an entire meeting room, sink a boat, crash a plane, or blow up a car.

Where, in all of time and space, do you think would be best to send this thing to change the past?

I was sorta assuming "for the better", but if you just want to see the world burn, feel free to suggest chaotic options.

Any ideas where you'd best us this power? I mean, the obvious one is blow up Hitler. Maybe fire on the Beer Hall Putsch? That'd get him and much of the Nazi leadership as well, and all before Hitler got national headlines.

But I'm wondering if there's was a meeting sometime in history with a bunch of particularly bad people where you could take 'em all out at once for a better "return on investment".

[loving-n0t-heyting]

Happy anniversary to George Elser’s attempted 1939 assassination of Adolf Hitler. Elser, a carpenter, over the course of a year devised and implemented a plan to detonate a time-bomb in the pillar behind Hitler during his annual commemorative speech of the beer hall putsch. Had he not unexpectedly cut his planned two hour speech short by an hour, the detonation would have surely killed him. Elser seems to have acted alone, undetected, and was subsequently imprisoned until close to the end of the war in the hopes of staging a show trial, before his summary execution instead once Germany’s defeat was imminent

May we all be so courageous and resourceful when the opportunity presents itself

[sashayed]

doing a seance with a bunch of gay weimar ghosts to ask what they wish they'd done differently once they realized the beer hall putsch guy was absolutely going to be chancellor

update they said NOTHING, they said WHAT?, they said EXPLAIN TO US HOW THE DEAD COULD HAVE LIVED DIFFERENTLY. i said well, politically, like would you have, I don't know, written pamphlets or marched or something? and they said LOLOLOLOL. now they are reminding each other of their favorite smells and dancing in a skeleton circle :( thanks for nothing

[whencyclopedia]

How Did Hitler Rise to Power?

The rise of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the Nazi dictator of Germany from 1933, was enabled by those already in power eager to take advantage of his popularity. Hitler promised to make Germany great again after the humiliation of WWI by restoring Germany's lost territories, returning to traditional German values, achieving full employment, and destroying 'enemies' like Communists and Jewish people.

Hitler's rise to power was a surprisingly long process, involving many steps and several significant setbacks such as his imprisonment following the failed coup known as the Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923. Hitler's rise to power effectively took a decade, with the Nazi Party gaining just 12 seats in elections for the German Reichstag (Parliament) in 1928 (from a total of 491 in that election), 107 in 1930, 230 in July 1932, 196 in November 1932, and 288 seats in 1933. Once securely in power as chancellor, in 1933, Hitler quickly eliminated all opposition and established a totalitarian regime with himself as undisputed dictator, Germany's Führer.

Adolf Hitler in SA Uniform

Imperial War Museums (CC BY-NC-SA)

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power for the following reasons:

The harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles riled many Germans, especially the guilt clause for starting WWI, and traditional political parties were tarnished by association with the signing of the treaty. Hitler promised to overturn the treaty and restore German pride.

The fallout of the Great Depression led to mass unemployment and hyperinflation leading voters to turn to more extreme political parties.

The weakness and ineptitude of successive Weimar Republic coalition governments.

Hitler promised full employment through such programmes as road building and rearmament.

In return for their support, Hitler promised business leaders lucrative state contracts such as arms manufacturing. This idea was also popular with the German Army.

Hitler appealed to traditional German beliefs like the greatness of the nation, strong family values, and a classless society.

Hitler promised an expansion of Germany to find new lands and Lebensraum ('living space') where the German people could prosper.

Hitler used propaganda to identify what the Nazis described as common enemies of the state, such as outsiders and Jewish people who, he claimed, were holding Germany back.

A cult of Hitler was created, which promoted the idea that he was the saviour of Germany.

The establishment thought that by inviting Hitler to power, they could better control the Nazi phenomenon and benefit from its popularity themselves.

Once made chancellor, Hitler used his power to eliminate rivals. He ensured the German parliament had little power and began to establish a dictatorship with himself as the undisputed head of a one-party police state.

Historians continue to debate the weight of each of the above points in accounting for Hitler's rise to power.

The Treaty of Versailles

The First World War (1914-18) was formally terminated by the Treaty of Versailles, which dictated the terms of the German surrender. Germany lost a significant part of its territory, was obliged to pay reparations, and had to accept full responsibility for starting the conflict. The German people protested at these terms in 1919, and those German politicians who had agreed to it were widely referred to as 'the criminals of 1919'. This resentment was fuelled by the myth that the German people had been let down in WWI by the high command of their army, which had 'stabbed them in the back', otherwise, they might have won the war, many thought. Consequently, there was a feeling that the political and military establishment of the new Germany, the Weimar Republic (1918-33), could not be fully trusted.

Europe after The Treaty of Versailles

Simeon Netchev (CC BY-NC-ND)

The fascist National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP or Nazi Party for short) was founded in 1920. The party was neither socialist nor at all interested in workers, but Adolf Hitler had chosen the name to give his ultra-nationalist party as wide an appeal as possible. Hitler was able to exploit the anti-establishment feeling as the Nazis were complete outsiders. As early as 1925, in his book Mein Kampf, Hitler promised to abolish the terms of Versailles and create a new 'Greater Germany'.

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